Hello there! I am Shawn and this is my personal blog. Most of my posts will be reblogs while a small margin shall be asks and personal posts and maybe something else I didn't mention. I hope you enjoy!
“Isn’t it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal” I mean, there’s a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn’t have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We’re not fast and don’t have a lot of natural weaponry but we’re bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
“In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.” Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There’s only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.
Fucking word.
Learn your rights!
AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND. It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
I was interested in this because as a new U.S. resident I had many companies ask for proof of residency/citizenship *and* age in phone screen which are both illegal practices, so I did some research. Here’s some important info:
Some states have their own anti-discrimination laws and agencies, but you’re always covered by federal level by EEOC. You don’t need to submit info to both fed or state, submit with either and they will open relevant case with the other.
They’re very strict on timing. Some states require you to file within 180 days of the discrimination happening (Some states allow up to 300 days).
Multiple things have to happen within those 180 days: start the process by submitting an inquiry online and after that there will be an in-person interview at your local EEOC field office, after which you can submit an actual charge of discrimination.
EEOC will help expedite those things if you have 30 days or less in that timeline.
EEOC collected $404 million for discrimination victims in 2010 over a record of almost 100,000 individual cases (average of $4,000 per case — so some cases will receive less than this).
whenever I tell someone “I’m tired” and they say “go to sleep” and I say “I’m not that type of tired” and they say “there’s only one type of tired” I always feel amazed. Astounded. How do they not know the different versions of tired.
Physical exhaustion from the chronic illness. Not drowsy, but needs to lay down. Maybe my Hashimoto’s or bad knees or plantar fasciitis is acting up, but either way, I need to relax with an ice pack and a tens unit.
emotional exhaustion. The type of “tired” people mean when they say “I’m sick and tired of x.” I’m so numb and usually I’d be about one minor inconvenience away from snapping but the exhaustion of being alive has gotten so heavy that I don’t even notice inconveniences anymore.
drowsiness. If I’m trying to tell someone I need to sleep, I’ll say “I’m sleepy” or “I want to go to bed.”
unable to process what’s going on but the closest word I can use to describe how I’m feeling is “tired.”
5. The kind of tired that comes with severe brain fog. You don’t mean to be struggling so much just to answer a simple question, but you are. And the effort makes it worse.
